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RE: Cox Responds/Quick Response Needed


Please remove my name from all broadcast e-mail

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gerry Blabber [SMTP:gbalbier@heinz.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 01, 1999 4:41 PM
> To:	'pgh-inet@network-democracy.org'
> Subject:	RE: Cox Responds/Quick Response Needed
> 
> Name	Gerry Balbier		
> Title	Program Officer
> Organization	Heinz Endowments
> address		625 Liberty Ave, Pgh 15222
> City, State, Zip Code
> Work Phone Number	338-2652
> Fax Number		281-5788
> E-mail Address		gbalbier@heinz.org
> What committee do you wish to work on? (Committees described below.)
> 	Both committee's
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RFlanag@aol.com [mailto:RFlanag@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 4:32 PM
> To: Pgh-INet@network-democracy.org; yhlgsph+@pitt.edu;
> dan.cohen@city.pittsburgh.pa.us; crawford@pps.pgh.pa.us;
> CTAC@city-net.com; Whitney20@mindspring.com; griffin@pps.pgh.pa.us;
> MVUC@yahoo.com; jamiii@massarocompany.com; RNSTPNT+@pitt.edu;
> ADJUAS@aol.com; segel@jhf.org; rfslfs@westol.com;
> YRone.Zober@City.Pittsbutgh.PA.US; cal@trfn.clpgh.org
> Subject: Cox Responds/Quick Response Needed
> 
> 
> I talked with Deputy Mayor Tom Cox today about arranging a meeting
> with
> the 
> City's consultant. Deputy Mayor Cox said that he was under the
> assumption 
> that he would not move on setting the consultant meeting up until the 
> Pittsburgh I-Net Working group had submitted an official committee
> list.
> 
> 
> In order to respond to his request, I am asking that if you want to
> become an 
> official member of the Pittsburgh I-Net Working Group that you e-mail
> me
> the 
> following information. Once the list is developed I will submit it to
> Deputy 
> Mayor Cox and then he will arrange the meeting. Even if you have been
> very 
> active with the working group I need this information. ACT NOW!
> 
> Name
> Title
> Organization
> address
> City, State, Zip Code
> Work Phone Number
> Fax Number
> E-mail Address
> What committee do you wish to work on? (Committees described below.)
> 
> Committee Description
> Two smaller committees will be established that would work with the
> City
> and 
> its negotiating team to help refine the concept of a municipal I-Net:
> 
> 1) Infrastructure committee.  This committee will focus on issues of
> network 
> architecture and costs.
> 
> 2) Management committee.  This committee will look at models for
> operational 
> organization and management structure.
> 
> The two committees will help the negotiating team in formulating its
> requests 
> for the structure and operation of a municipal I-Net. The committees
> will 
> seek to define structures which adequately serve the needs of the
> City,
> the 
> school district and the libraries with regard to reliability and
> flexibility, 
> while providing the extensibility needed to meet community networking
> needs.

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